Thorned_Rose

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

I think you may be way underestimating the number of people who have no idea the software they use is spying on them.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

They also monitor outbound streaming. I've twice had a documentary movie I was watching at a theatre stopped because so one was supposedly live streaming the movie to the internet. The second time it happened they stopped the movie until the person doing it stopped, only it turned out they made a mistake and no one was live streaming it at all - they just interrupted the movie for fucking ages because of wanky attitudes. What made it even more stupid was that it was a special screening for a one off event AND a pretty niche documentary that most people wouldn't give a fuck about let alone pirate 🙄

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

I know it's probably annoying, but could you use your old phone just for your chair? Strip it out of everything unnecessary so it's got bare minimum to run the app which would also (hopefully) have the advantage of longer battery?

(And sorry I can't give you a more directly helpful answer)

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

Part of the problem with that though is that to become that wealthy to start with means that someone (or many someones) weren't paid the value of their labour. Capitalism is predicated on making profit from the labour of others and you can't make profit if you're paying the full value of that labour.

Sometimes that's obvious in the form of slavery and exploitation. But many times it's not obvious at all - especially when a wealthy person is born into wealth (which almost all of them are) and they haven't themselves engaged in any exploitive practices - they likelihood is though that someone or more likely multiple people in their ancestry DID create their family wealth through exploitation. Because, again, capitalism cannot function without someone along the way being underpaid for their labour.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

Maybe from the number of people making posts to the Good News community that's 'X Philanthropist donates X millions to X". It's not really good news since most philanthropy is bullshit.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

I have ads blocked and avoid using Facebook as much as possible but this insidious ad literally slid out of the bottom of the video I was watching (part way through the video) and would not let me close it or bring up the menu - clicking on either of those things just acted as though I clicked on the ad itself.

Facebook taking shitty advertising practices to a new low.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

uBlock Origin. Annoyances, and Fanboy Anti-Facebook is also enabled. I've noticed lately that a fair number of 'sponsored' ads have been slipping through. Facebook is always freaking Whack-a-mole with ads. This so far takes the cake for shady advertising practices though.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

Ironically I also just got an email from on online service encouraging me to swap from 2FA logins to Google (or Apple) logins because it's "part of [their] commitment to [my] privacy". 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

Maybe break down by gender could be related to how accessible technology is to genders based on barriers like sexism and gender-based hostility? A bit like how IT jobs have less women (despite things like the first programmers being women and it originally being a "woman's job"), non-binary folk and tend to be male-dominated? You have to ask why something that shouldn't have a gender bias is gendered. In this instance, I would be looking at why there's a difference between Western/W.E.I.R.D. countries and Indonesia - what in Indonesia is making it more accessible to women when the reverse is true in countries known to be hostile to non-males in the technology world.

(Possibly I have way overcomplicated what I'm trying to say lol but I'm a bit sick at the moment so not easy to think through a woolly head).

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

I used to almost exclusively pirate because I couldn't afford much of anything. Steam has actually enabled me to purchase most of the games I use since I can wait till they're on special and cheap. There's also a huge amount of indie games that would never have seen the light of day if they could only release on physical media or through their own website or whatever.
no Steam isn't perfect, I would like Valve to take less of a cut but in terms of making games more accessible, I think they've done a decent job.
No shade on my fellow pirates who still exclusively pirate and don't want to feed the corporate beast.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

You could look at dual boot instead of WSL. YouTube has some pretty decent tutorial. Just make sure you take all tutorials with a pinch of salt; don't EVER run a command without looking it up first and checking out what it does; and try to find the most recent tutorials you can.

You may also have a local Linux club that can help you get started too 🙂

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

I assume you've got the boot partitions on the same drive? I've found it is easier when you have windows on a completely separate drive.

My only other suggestion would be to check out the Arch Wiki on dual booting - it's a goldmine for working out dual boot issues.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

We've used a couple of different Pis and a couple of different Odroids. The Odroids have been excellent and trouble free, the Pis not so much. Initially we got a Pi because we thought with the bigger community and better software support it would be easier to troubleshoot issues. Except that they have been regular problems that we haven't always been able to work around or fix. One of them got relegated to a retro game 'console' because it was more trouble than it was worth. We've had little issues with the Odroids that wasn't easily sorted.

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

If it's publicly accessible, it's going to be exploited for LLMs 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

Not entirely their call. I have little sympathy for the likes of Sony, Samsung et al but they're also beholden to the entertainment industry which is very VERY pro-DRM (and the like). Open Source standards will make it much harder to lock down TVs and make it easier to pirate shit (or, you know, actually fully own your TV and do whatever the fuck you want with it). They won't be dropping those 'calls' any time soon, not unless pissing off the entertainment industry worked out as more profit.

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

I've been using Arch almost a decade now (after distro hopping between various Debian based distros), installed it on a bunch of different devices and never once had to read about selinux.

Arch maintainers take care of stuff too. If you don't want to update much, then update every three months or however long you like 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Because there's still unfortunately a heap of Arch FUD and myths floating around.

FWIW, I agree with you. I ended up using Arch for the past almost decade now in part because of the repos and pacman.

I distro hopped a lot when I first moved to Linux (from Windows) before settling on Mint. Faffing about with adding repos didn't feel like an improvement over the Windows experience of having to go to various websites to download files.

I was still pretty much a Linux noob when I moved to Arch. I'm glad I didn't listen to all the FUD then about it being hard and terrible. It's been so much easier to use and maintain than other distros I've used (or installed for other folks).

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I've been using Arch as my daily driver for almost a decade. I think I might know how much tinkering it requires lol. You can look at Arch News and you'll see there's bugger all interventions required. I don't bother to tinker with anything and haven't in about three years because I'm happy with what I have. I don't need to tinker if I don't want to. 🤷🏻‍♀️

In that almost decade, I could count on one hand the number of times my system has broken and most of those was basic user error.

And I never said it was the easiest distro. You gotta stop making strawman arguments.

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

EDIT: I am tired, in pain and was feeling grumpy when I wrote this this morning. I'm being a hypocrite and not coming to your level with compassion, kindness and patience like I should. So I'm going to bow out of this conversation and say agree to disagree. I'll keep helping folks move to Linux like I have been for years and put my energy where I want it to go.

::: spoiler Original reply
You think I'm flexing? Interesting. And you want to tell me I'm extrapolating (projecting)?

Guessed I should have 'flexed' more and also explained that my experience is not just with my own PC but multiple PC's, laptops and.... not all mine. Yep, I'm 'flexing' about all the people I've helped install Linux (all Arch based oh no) with my years of flexing volunteer experience.

With all my years of years of volunteer work and helping countless people (including in a very vulnerable area of society) I only ever talk down to people yep. I totally don't encourage everyone to come to people at their level with compassion, kindness and patience.

I'm just all bout the flex. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Maybe don't make assumptions about someone's motivations, experience and qualifications when you don't actually know them?
:::

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

Please stop. You want to have a go at devs on an open source project and say that they're mentally ill but dude, ranting like this, making multiple accounts to post the same stuff, this sort of rage... it's not healthy. I say this with complete kindness. For your own sake, let it go.

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

You can install Manjaro's pamac though. And installing KDE and it's ecosystem gives you almost all the gui you need.

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

As others have said, you can install Endeavour instead. If you want a gui installer, you can still install pamac (Manjaro's gui for pacman and AUR).

I'm on Arch and I still find pamac useful at times.

The Arch Wiki is excellent. Endeavour has a great community that will help out if you get stuck.

There's plenty of tutorial videos that can help get you started.

I highly recommend using the man command. Appending --help is also great for when you're not quite sure what a pacman (or any other command for that matter) works.

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

I have the inverse where I found pacman intuitive and apt confusing. I distro hopped before settling on Arch and it was pacman that was like a light bulb for me.
I did have notes (a cheatsheet if you will) on the different parts of pacman switches but, at least for me, know what each letter stood for mde things much easier to remember.

Thorned_Rose, 3 months ago

That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated to the Fediverse, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.